Venue:IDEAL artspace
Schulze-Delitzsch-Straße 27
04315 Leipzig
Partner:The project is supported by the Funds from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, VG Bildkunst/Neustart Kultur and the Cultural Fund of the City of Freising.
The artist book Die Aufstellung (The Constellation) by Rebekka Bauer addresses the legacy of the traumas of World War 2 in the home of a German family. The artist's work takes as its starting point an archive of over 500 metal objects that her grandfather, a former member of the Wehrmacht, created over several decades in the basement of their shared home. The objects, hundreds of candleholders assembled in a whimsical array of flattened metals and everyday objects such as faucets or metal springs, become bearers of trauma within the artisanal practice. To show the impact of untold wartime experiences on everyday family life, the metal objects are contrasted with both images of the war and family photographs that show snippets of the family's daily life up to the early 2000s.
Rebekka Bauer (*1991 in Freising, lives in Leipzig) is an artist, curator, author, and stage designer. She studied media art with Clemens von Wedemeyer at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and stage design at the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In her work, she uses biographies and everyday realities to question processes of subjective and collective historiography. In her re-arrangements of photographic archives, objects, and everyday items, she references cinematic and literary modes of storytelling through various methods of montage. Collective and dialogue-based work is an important part of her practice. She often works with other artists, most recently with Lucia Graf for the collaborative piece "Room with a sink," in which she uses protagonists A and B to negotiate the notions of touch, communication, and intimacy. She is a member of the curatorial collective of the Kunstverein Leipzig.
Rebekka Bauer: Die Aufstellung (The Constellation) with a text by Thomas Lindenberg, published by Marian Arnd
ISBN: 978-3-948927-28-8
